Chapter 1090 Nian Xi’s Eight Characters (Part 1)

Although Cao Yong was not in a hurry to ask Yiduli to pay back the money, he still secretly supported him for taking "Kid Pillow" so quickly.

After all, according to the Sixteenth Prince, the account book of "Hua Tiantang" must be handed over to the imperial court every month.

Yiduli thought that he would hide his identity and not show off when he took the post to the "Treasure Appraisal Association". But this is a big place in the capital, so how could he hide it from those who are interested?

Although he sold it ten days after buying it and lost more than 20,000 taels of silver, this cannot be said to be a loser in Yidu. It can only be said that he did not raise money and could not save even if he bought good things impulsively.

When the emperor had no money, it would never be a good thing for his ministers to be rich. Now, seeing that he suffered some small losses, he might have taken advantage of it.

After seeing the "Treasure Appraisal Meeting" in Huatiantang twice, it was the end of July and the Mid-Autumn Festival approached.

Start buying mooncakes in "Daoxiangcun". Compared with previous years, the mooncake gift boxes in Daoxiangcun this year are much more luxurious. The price is not cheap, from 28 taels of silver "Fu Lu Shou" to 280 taels of silver "perfect".

The price that can be sold is not because of how rare the mooncakes in Daoxiangcun are, but because of the word "gift box" of the "moon cake gift box". This year's high-end gift boxes are all exquisite boxes made of real money and silver.

The perfect mooncake box used 20 taels of gold. The box used for "Fu Lu, Shou and Joy" used 10 taels of silver.

Always, it means that apart from the cost of gold, silver and mooncakes consumed, each gift box can earn fifty taels of silver on average.

Seven gift boxes, each of which is 500, are sold separately in ten Daoxiangcun shops in Beijing.

People in Beijing still recognize the "Daoxiangcun" buns. After a few days of showing up in the shop, they were well-known by word of mouth.

However, there are still many people talking about it and few people buying it. After all, this is expensive. If real relatives and friends walk around during the holidays, it would be better to give this to you for real money.

There are many people running for officials this year, and this "mooncake gift box" that is truly rich and decent, has suddenly become the first choice for gifts. A child of a senior official from the Southern Province bought fifty boxes of "perfect" at once.

In this way, it was a precedent. Those who ran to the office turned their attention to the "moon cake gift box" in Daoxiang Village.

On the seventh day of the eighth month, the 3,500 "moon cake gift boxes" in Daoxiangcun were sold out. This item alone made Daoxiangcun invest 175,000 taels of silver.

Several shopkeepers, seeing that this was in good momentum, had long come to Cao's house to ask for instructions on whether to make another batch of "gift boxes". Moon cakes are all ready-made, mainly these moon cake boxes made of gold and silver.

Chu Yu denied this suggestion and asked them to concentrate on the cake and stop thinking about taking shortcuts.

Daoxiang Village refused to add more "gift boxes", but other snack shops were already jealous. As early as when Daoxiang Village's gold and silver gift boxes began to sell, they began to follow the trend, but because their reputation was not as good as Daoxiang Village, the house was a bit deserted.

After the Daoxiang Village gift boxes were sold out, those who were one step late and looked down on ordinary mooncakes, they went to other shops to buy gold and silver gift boxes.

In fact, this businessman has a keen eye for doing things, and not only follows the trend, but also the Jinlou and Yinlou.

After the tenth day of August, real gold and silver mooncake gift boxes have been released. Not only are the boxes made of gold and silver, but the mooncakes inside are also pure gold and sterling silver, and the portions are getting more and more.

But they also understood that the price they sold was appropriate. If the price was harsh, then everyone would find a goldsmith to make it by themselves. So they just raised 10% to 20% in terms of the price of gold and silver.

Although I can't eat it, I look like a "moon cake" after all. I can say it's appropriate to take this with a thick face. In this way, the buyers are quite serious, but the "moon cake gift boxes" from other bun shops seem less affordable, and they are a little unsold and unsold in their hands.

Until this time, the shopkeepers of Daoxiang Village who originally wanted to continue selling "gift boxes" felt glad and only praised their wives for being "foresighted".

In fact, it was not that Chu Yu had "foresight", but that Cao Yong, who was making suggestions behind the scenes, knew that "stop when he saw it was good."

It is not only necessary to make profits but also not eye-catching that it is in line with his way of being a human being.

Just because Daoxiangcun has few gift boxes and sold out early, and the mooncakes in pure gold and silver later came out, no one paid attention to the money Daoxiangcun made first.

He also saw Yiduli buying land to raise cash, and thought of his own.

If he took office abroad, the Western Prefecture would not follow him. The family would have to live in two places, and the money would be doubled. In addition, if Cao Xiang returned to Beijing, he would face the situation of splitting up his family.

Although the East Mansion has successively purchased foreign houses and land for the purpose of splitting the family in recent years, his cousin is not as good as his life, so he lets his cousin live with his fingers.

As early as when Daoxiang Village opened, he told his wife that he would take out some of the money to supplement his younger brothers and sisters in the future, and Chu Yu also responded.

He had already thought about it. When the East Mansion split, he would take out some money and give it to his three cousins. In the future, they would develop themselves. They were all people who started their own families and careers, and he, as a brother, could not take care of his whole life.

In this way, the three cousins ​​who were given away and brought to another place were seriously needed, so he took advantage of the style of running for office in the capital to come up with such an idea for his wife and made a small profit.

It’s funny to say that some foreign officials, who first arrived in the capital, were not well-informed and did not know the relationship between Cao’s mansion and Daoxiangcun, sent the gift box from “Daoxiangcun” to Cao’s mansion.

There are seven gift boxes in Daoxiangcun. Cao Mansion actually received three of them, including one silver gift box, one four-box, and two four-box.

Even if the entrance is bought by my own shop, after replacing it in the middle, there is only one that rewards the servants. Only the box is made ingeniously, Chu Yu distributed small items to Niu Niu and Tianhui.

On this day, Cao Yong was resting, but he did not go out to see the festival, but stayed at home.

As early as three days ago, Nian Xi sent someone to send a message to him and wanted to bring his wife to the door today.

He chose Cao Yong to come to visit the house on his day of rest, which shows that he was also considerate. In addition, the two families were serious brother-in-law, so Cao Yong, who is his brother-in-law, naturally he should be cautious. Although he knew in his heart that Nian Xiba was thanking him, he was not easy to lose his manners.

Chu Yu was very happy when he heard that his sister and brother-in-law came to visit him.

Although the fifth princess of the Chun Palace was also married to the capital, it was not easy to return to the palace because of the strict family of his husband, let alone visiting his sister's house.

After hearing this, Li also valued it very much and asked Chu Yu to do a good job of having a good meal and not neglect his relatives.

Cao Yong was very grateful for Nian Xi's ability to survive the life and death disaster, but if he wanted the most important backer of the Nian family, Nian Guifei's birthday was not long, Nian Gengyao would also be in a miserable state. At that time, he didn't know what Nian Xi would be, so his joy would fade a little.

Sometimes, living is harder than dying.

At the beginning of Si (9:00 am), Nian Xi and his wife arrived as promised.

Nian Xi still looked thin, but when she met the sickbed, she was no longer the same. That time she was dead, but now she couldn't say she was full of vitality, and she also had more energy.

Such a serious disease, it is rare to have improved after three months of treatment.

After arriving at Cao's mansion, Nian Xi first went to Lanyuan to pay tribute to Li's family with the seventh princess.

Earlier, he also visited the Cao Mansion with the old man of the Nian family, but he was a foreign guest at that time, so he was a front desk and was not qualified to enter the inner house. Now, he is a serious in-laws and a relative who really wants to meet each other.

Speaking of which, Nian Xi's grandfather Nalan Rongruo was also Cao Yin's old friend. Although Nalan died of illness early, Li also heard her husband's comments in her early years.

In addition, I also heard about the situation of the legitimate son of the New Year family. He lost his mother at a young age and was unkind. He lived in Prince Yong's house when he was young. When he grew up, he was entirely dependent on his elderly grandfather's care. Li felt a little more pity in his heart.

During this consultation, she was not free to bring some kindness.

In Nianxi's family, his stepmother was born in a royal family and acted arrogantly; his aunt was taciturn and treated politely and estranged; although his aunt loved him, it was because the age difference between his aunt and nephew was less than ten years old, and he looked more like his elder sister.

Li's loving attitude moved Nian Xi, and he also brought true closeness and respect in his reply.

Seeing him like this, Li felt more and more that he was worthy of being a young master, respectful and polite, and liked him even more, and said, "Since he is a real relative, if you don't dislike our family's low family, you might as well walk around more in the future. Even your brother-in-law is not a few years apart, and you are an official in the same dynasty, so you should be close to each other."

In Nian Xi's mind, the appearance of her biological mother was already blurred.

Although he had known that Cao Yong had a rift with his father and that the family was alienated in the same year, he was unwilling to go against Li's kindness. He looked at Cao Yong sitting next to him and said, "Madam, the eldest brother-in-law is the savior of the younger generation. As long as the eldest brother-in-law does not mind the younger generation being clumsy, the younger generation is willing to ask the older brother-in-law more ways to deal with people."

This father-in-law, uncle, and brother-in-law are the three relatives whom the bannermen value most. Nian Xi was willing to get close to his son, and Li was also happy.

After the reception at Li's house, Cao Yong accompanied Nian Xi to the living room of the front yard for tea, while the seventh princess was invited by Chu Yu to Wutongyuan, and the two sisters talked to each other.

As Cao Yong expected, Nian Xi and his wife came to thank them for their gratitude.

In addition to sincere words of gratitude, the couple also prepared a heavy gift. Part of it was brought to the Mid-Autumn Festival ceremony, and part of it was a meeting gift for Li and to the children.

Not only did Changsheng, Tianyou, Hengsheng, Tianhui, and the uncles and nephews of the Cao family, even Niu Niu, Zuo Zhu and Zuo Cheng, all of them have their own share, which shows their intentions.

When Chu Yu saw that the children had prepared too heavy, he refused to accept the meeting gift.

The seventh princess said anxiously: "If the eldest sister doesn't accept it, she will not like our relatives. These things are carefully prepared after we discussed with the old master. Even if the eldest sister doesn't care about the relationship between her and our master, she will at least look at it for our old master."

She carried out the elders, but Chu Yu couldn't say anything else.

The seventh princess talked differently, and wanted to see Tianhui and Niu Niu.

When she was a child, she followed the Seventh Concubine to Cao's mansion twice and met Niu Niu and Tianhui.

Chu Yu asked someone to call Niu Niu and Tianhui over. After a while, the two of them came to see the guests. One was called "Seventh Sister", the other was called "Auntie Seventh Aunt", the seventh Princess returned the ceremony, the other was called "Sister Ping" and the other was called "Grand Girl".

Speaking of which, she is only fifteen years old, one year older than Niu Niu.

Just like Nian Xi has changed, in the past three months, the seventh princess has also faded her childishness, her face is round, and she has a little more tenderness.

Chu Yu is a veteran, so he could see the difference and breathed a sigh of relief.

Since the brother-in-law has been able to fulfill his family, the younger sister will have hope. Even if the brother-in-law's condition occurs again in the future, as long as the younger sister has a son and a half daughter, it will be considered a support.

Forbidden City, Yikun Palace.

Nian personally brought a cup of tea and delivered it to Yongzheng.

Yongzheng took it, took a bite, and saw that she was weak, and said, "It's autumn, you should add clothes early and take medicine a few days ago. This is just a little better. If you get sick again, it's not very stubborn."

After hearing these caring words, Nian's face became a little red and said, "Thank you, the emperor, I am already very happy."

She is the youngest among the wives and concubines of Yongzheng Qian’s residence. She entered the royal palace in her teens and is in her early thirties this year.

The woman who was standing next to her was already a beauty, but she was an exception. She was still beautiful and retained the sweetness and shyness of a young woman. It was just because there were too many twists and turns over the years, and when she was enjoying her own favor, she also experienced the pain of losing her son again and again, which made her eyebrows feel more and more distressed.

Because of pity for the suffering she suffered, Yongzheng had more pity and indulgence towards this concubine over the years.

Nian was in poor health a few days ago, and Yongzheng had not turned over her sign for some days, so he was a little moved now.

Nian had something to do and was thinking about how to speak, but he didn't pay attention to Yongzheng's reaction.

Seeing her eyes flashing, and just as the little desire arose, Yongzheng suddenly became cold again, and said, "My beloved face is worried, but what are you worried about?"

In the past two years, there have been not only one or two court officials who have been to the Nian family openly and secretly. Those who have flattered them were not the majestic general Nian Gengyao, but the imperial concubine who gave birth to a prince in the palace.

Yongzheng had experienced the pain of fighting for the throne in the Nine Dragons and would never let his sons repeat the same mistakes. In addition to his pity for Concubine Nian, he also developed a sense of guard against him.

The reason why he did not interfere with the ministers' "shoulder" was to use the whetstone of the Nian family to try out who is selfish and who is truly loyal to the emperor.
Chapter completed!